The name Aphra is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "dust".

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Aphra would make an interesting choice-- especially since it's the name of the first professional female writer in English, the seventeenth century's Aphra Behn. Born in 1640, she was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration, and a spy.
<br/><br/>The spelling Aphra was probably inspired by the biblical place name Aphrah, but in medieval English records it also had spellings such as Eaffry and Affery, and is thought to derive from Anglo-Saxon names such as Aethelthryth and Aelthryth — which would make it a cousin of Audrey.
<br/><br/>In antiquity, Afra was also a name for a woman from Africa that eventually became a given name, and was borne by several Roman saints.

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